City of Bloomington

Bloomington Deputy City Manager Billy Tyus said tax revenue is up and the public has said road improvements should be a priority.

Normal Mayor Chris Koos is conditionally endorsing doing away with bus fares in the Twin Cities, but says he still wants to see a concrete proposal before fully committing.

A Bloomington family found a ring-tailed lemur in a garage, a long way from its native Madagascar.

The head of Bloomington-Normal's bus system said his organization will forgo nearly $1.4 million in funding from the City of Bloomington and Town of Normal next budget year. Those are dollars for capital projects David Braun said Connect Transit doesn't need right now.

The outgoing board president of the West Bloomington Revitalization Project says the culture of the group has helped it come back in 2022 from the pandemic and six feet of sewage in the basement during last year's big Bloomington flood.

Bloomington’s planning commission on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a near 300-unit housing development.

Bloomington residents in the 61701 ZIP code can apply for an abatement program that will reduce the hazardous effects of in-home lead poisoning.

Bloomington's city manager said the heating and cooling units at Grossinger Motors Arena should have lasted four to nine years longer than they have.

The Town of Normal is making Smart Cities technology a big priority. The City of Bloomington has been less vocal on that front, but also is leveraging new tech. Smart Cities technology, broadly defined, is supposed to make city operations smoother for the public and more efficient for the municipality.

Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe says the city's move to merge operations between the arena and Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts will help the downtown venues run more efficiently, but it's too soon to project whether the arena will be able to reverse years of financial losses.